Title :
Chalcogenide glasses for nonlinear photonics
Author :
Luther-Davies, Barry ; Xin Gai ; Prasad, Athul ; Madden, S. ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Rongping Wang
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
Chalcogenide glasses are important amorphous semiconductors used for phase-change memories, solar cells and in photonics. Here I will review their photonic applications with an emphasis on new glasses for high speed all-optical signal processing.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical glass; optical information processing; amorphous semiconductors; chalcogenide glasses; high speed all-optical signal processing; nonlinear photonics; phase-change memories; solar cells; Glass; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Nonlinear photonics; nonlinear materials;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), 2010 35th Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
DOI :
10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929922
